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-J. ADAMS AND B. SCHAEFFER. COMBINED STEM, PIPE, AND CIGAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13 I917.

Patented Sept. 16, 1919.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANDGRAIH cm, WASHINGTON. u. 42

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ADAMS AN D BENNO SCHAEFFER, OF HOBOKEN', NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED STEM, PIPE, AND CIGAR HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 16, 1919.

To all 401mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, resident of Hoboken, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, and I, BENNO SGHAEFFER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, resident of Hoboken, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Stems, Pipes, and Cigar Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mouthpicces of pipe stems and cigar holders and has as its special object the provision of a mouth piece which may be at tached either to the stem of a pipe or used to support a cigar with equal facility.

A further object is to provide means combined with the mouthpiece whereby the cigar may be securely clamped so as to prevent the same from becoming loosened and inadvertently dropping from the holder, and finally to provide a mouth stem which may be particularly suited to the requirements of the user in combination with an adapter so that it may be used for either purpose.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view, showing the application of the mouthpiece to a pipe of ordinary construction.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the center of the same.

Fig. 3 shows the device as applied to a cigar.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 is applied to the pipe bowl which is provided with a usual stem 11, through which is a central axial passage 12, for the smoke, the stem terminating in a conical end 13. The mouthpiece 15 has a central passage 16 for the smoke and may be made of such shapeas is best adapted to the requirements of the user. The end which is held in the mouth preferably has a flattened conical surface adjoining a stem 18, terminating in a threaded end 19, fitted to be received at either end wlthin a central cylindrical sleeve 20, having one conical internally threaded end 21, suited to engage with the threads of the stem 13 of the pipe, while the opposite end 22 is extended outwardly presenting a hollow cone adapted to receive the end of a cigar in the usual manner.

When used in connection with a pipe, the smaller coned end 21 is engaged in an obvious manner, while if it be used as a cigar holder, the threaded portion '19, is unscrewed from the sleeve 20 and reentered from the opposite direction, so as to present the opening 22 outwardly.

Formed in the enlarged coned end 22 are a plurality of slits 24:, the same presenting fingers 25, of resilient nature, adapted to engage with a cigar 30 as indicated in Fig. 3, and in order to hold the same securely, an outer sliding sleeve 26 is arranged upon the inner sleeve 20, so that the same can be pressed toward the cigar, causing the fingers 25 to securely clamp upon its outer surface.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination, a pipe stem having a tapering end, a mouthpiece provided with an elongated, threaded tapering portion, a tapering, cylindrical sleeve having flaring hollow portions formed at the opposite ends thereof, the iimer portion of said cylindrical sleeve beyond its center being short and threaded for the reception of the tapered portions of said mouthpiece on one side of its center and of said stem on the opposite side of its center, said sleeve at one of its end portions being formed with a series of slits, so as to provide fingers, and a cylindrical locking sleeve adapted to compress said fingers and being slidable over the other sleeve, and held against longitudinal dis placement by the flaring portions of said last named sleeve. r

In testimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures.

JOHN ADAMS, BENNO SOHAEFFER.

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